RE: Next question...

["Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>]

> Craig A. Huegen wrote:
> It is certainly not this.  I would love to be able to hand
> a policy specification to my counterparts in our desktop
> standards group and have them figure out how to apply this,
> in communication, coordination, etc. Less work for my team.
> But I recognize (as detailed in a previous e-mail) that the
> time and effort required to manage the configurations on a
> significant number of hosts and various permutations of host
> capabilities/extensions is far greater than an extensible
> policy infrastructure that allows me as the administrator
> to change policy and immediately have it applied across the
> entire infrastructure.  I can enhance the policy engine on
> less than 30 devices globally as opposed to coordinating
> features from a number of vendors for a number of operating
> systems for 100,000 hosts.

I could not agree more.

Michel.